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Syracuse, New York received a record snowfall of 42.3 inches (107 cm) which remained their heaviest storm on record, until the Blizzard of 1993. [8] At Oswego, the storm lasted from January 27 to January 31, 1966, a total of 4½ days. The daily snowfall totals for Southwest Oswego, as measured by Professor Robert Sykes Jr, are as follows.
The first trace of snow of the winter at the Buffalo NWS weather station in Cheektowaga, New York, occurred on October 9, while the first accumulating snow was on October 21. [11] Elsewhere in western New York, lake effect snow was observed in two periods, with up to 4 in (10 cm) on October 17–18 and up to 12 in (30 cm) on October 21–22 (O ...
Providence County, Rhode Island, was the hardest hit by the blizzard; the towns of Lincoln, Smithfield, Woonsocket, and North Smithfield all reported totals of at least 40 inches (100 cm) snow. [3] In New York City, it was one of the rare times that a snowstorm closed the schools; the New York City Board of Education closed schools for snow ...
A coastal storm that unleashed more than an inch of rain and peak wind gusts of 63 mph in New York City unloaded more than 2 feet of snow in parts of northeastern Pennsylvania. Snowfall began the ...
The term snowburst was coined in the 1960s by Prof. Robert Sykes who taught meteorology at SUNY Oswego, in northern New York. He used the term to describe a snowstorm that occurred December 7–11, 1958 in Oswego, New York. This particular storm dropped almost 6 feet of snow on the city including 40 inches in 24 hours.
The wrath of the blizzard pummeled the mid-Atlantic between Feb. 11 and Feb. 14, 1899, with 20 to 30 inches of snow accumulating from central Virginia to western Connecticut, including 20.5 inches ...
See interactive map to stay updated on all areas impacted by weather alerts in New York. Snow forecast map: See snowfall projections by day. The map below shows the probability that an area could ...
This also includes areas such as Northern Oswego County, New York, which received historic lake effect snowfall amounts in the week prior to the storm. [ citation needed ] In addition to the snowfall, snow squalls coming from Lake Ontario gave local amounts of over 2 feet (0.61 m) of snow near the Hamilton and Niagara regions, where 1 foot (0. ...